{"id":25277,"date":"2014-11-03T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/oilers-ference-suspended-three-games\/"},"modified":"2014-11-03T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T12:21:00","slug":"oilers-ference-suspended-three-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/oilers-ference-suspended-three-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Ference suspended three games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Edmonton Oilers defenseman Andrew Ference was suspended three games by the NHL on Monday for an illegal check.<\/p>\n<p>Ference delivered a check to the head of Vancouver forward Zack Kassian in the second period of Saturday&#8217;s game with the Canucks. He was assessed a minor penalty on the play.<\/p>\n<p>The supplemental discipline was issued by the NHL Department of Player Safety because Ference is considered a repeat offender. He will forfeit $118,902 of his salary, which will go to the Players&#8217; Emergency Assistance Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Ference will miss road games this week against Philadelphia, Boston and Buffalo. He will be eligible to return on Sunday against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Edmonton Oilers defenseman Andrew Ference was suspended three games by the NHL on Monday for an illegal check. Ference delivered a check to the head of Vancouver forward Zack Kassian in the second period of Saturday&#8217;s game with the Canucks. He was assessed a minor penalty on the play. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}